CHAC collaborates with FIRST 5 Santa Clara County and other community partners to offer programs that help parents and other caregivers understand the importance of physical and social-emotional development during the first years of life and early school years.

Key areas promoted are:

Positive parenting

Family resources

Skill building

Early literacy & language development

Healthy lifestyles

Community connection

Classes, events and individual consultations foster ways of building/maintaining a healthy connection between parent and child and increasing resilience in the family.

Through the programs at one of our four Family Resource Centers or selected off-site locations, families…

Learn about the importance of early and ongoing involvement in all stages of the child’s life

Interact with each other to reduce the sense of isolation, and

Increase the support they have in the community

Family Resource Center staff also trains a dedicated group of volunteers - many who have started as participants - who continue to carry out our vision to encourage further community involvement.